Portraits from within
Slipping | pictorico photo-weaving | 18x24 | 2025
Held Together | pictorico photo-weaving | 18x24 | 2025
I See You | photo-weaving | 24x28 | 2025
Unfamiliar | photo lenticular | 18x24 | 2025
Fragmented | photo-weaving | 18x24 | 2025
Enough? | photographic print | 18x24 | 2025
Speechless | photographic print | 18x24 | 2025
| photographic print | 18x24 | 2025
Artist Statement
My work explores the duality women face: society demands purity and innocence while simultaneously stripping them of it. This contradiction leaves women with a fragmented sense of self, their worth defined by what is taken from them rather than what they can claim for themselves. This systemic undermining, often fueled by men’s entitlement, forces women to piece together their identities from the remnants of what was lost.
At a deeper level, the weavings speak to how external experiences alter women’s innocence and identity. This loss isn’t just about youth or purity—it’s a lasting shift in self-understanding. Like a photograph, we may see ourselves differently, but we are still whole in some sense. In weaving these photographs, I explore the act of remaking, acknowledging the parts of us that may never be the same but finding strength in the reconstruction of self.
Despite what may have been stolen or altered, there is power in piecing together fragments to redefine who we are. Through this act, my work symbolizes the reclamation and reconstruction of selfhood. Each woven image captures the delicate balance between our past and the present selves.